• DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. STAINTON -BY-LANGWORTH. 537 Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1872 on a Oarr:ers from the neighbourhood pass through here site given by Sir Thomas· Beckett, for 8o children; every tues. thurs. & sa.t. en route to Gains borough average Bibtendanoe, 52; Charles Pearson, master Hedges Rev. Thomas Toovey (rector), Cheetham .Alban, pariEh clerk Minnitt Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Rectory Glew John Tom, farmer, Spring- post office Newbold George Edward thorpe grange Pearson Charles, schoolmaster Green John W. New inn Stephenson Georg-e William, farmer & COMMERCB.L. Kell Char le<! J oseph, farmer, Sturgate grazier, Pond House farm A.nyan Chas. farmer & grazier,Sturgte Lambert W alter, grocer Wilkinson John Anyan Ohas. J oseph, farmer & grazier, Lidgett Frederick, farmer ·winter Robert, mechanical engineer & Bellevue house .Middleton George William, joiner machinist & farmer, Summer hill STAINBY is a. parish and village, adjoining Leicester- executed by the rector and presented by him to the shire on the west, 6 miles west from Cor by station on / church: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the main line of the Great Northern railway, 14 north- the year 1653. The living is a rectory, consolidated with west from Stamford and 9 south from Grantham, in the that of Gunby St. Nicholas, joint net yearly value £300, South Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, including, in the united parishes, 425 acres of glebe, with wapentake of Beltisloe, petty sessional division of Spittle- re-sidence, in the giH of and held since r 877 by the Rev. gate, union and county court district of Grantham, rural Wilfrid Augustus Holden Thorold M.A. of Clare College, deanery of Beltisloe, and archdeaconry and diocese of Cambridge. The Earl of Dysart is lord of the manor Lincoln: this parish is connected with Colsterworth by and principal landowner. There are stone quarries here, a stone and iron bridge over the Witham. The church of owned by the Holwell Iron Oo. The soil is lGam; sub­ St. Peter is a building of stone, chiefly in the Early soil, red irons-tone and rock. The chief crops are the Decorated style, with some features of the Transition usual cereals and clover. The area is 1,459 acres; rate­ period, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, able va•lue, [3,145; popu1ation in r9or, 108. vestry and a tower with spire, containing a clock and 4 Parish Clerk, Fr-ederick Bronston. bells and Cambridge chimes: it was thoroughly restored PoS<t Office.-Frederick Branston, sub-postmaster. Let- in r865 by the Rev. George Osborne, then rector, at a cost ters are received through Grantham, via Golsterworth, of about £4,8oo, under the direction of Mr. Gillett, archi- •at 7-4 0 a.m. & sunday g.IO a.m. & dispatched Bit 5_30 tect: the stained east window was presented by the Misses p.m. week days and 4 _25 p.m. sundays. p,08tal Orders J ohnson, of Spalding, and there are several other stained are issued & paid here. Buckminster is the nearest windows, chiefly memorials: the reredos of carved oak money order & telegroph office, 2 miles distant is partly gilt, and enriched with canopies and figures : the communion table, also of oak, is panelled and illurni· Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of nated: the chancel screen is a modern work in the Per- Htainby & Gunby, originally bu!lt in 1840 by the Rev. pendicular style, surmounted by a rood, and was given George Os borne, late rect~r; it wi.ll hold ?o child_ren; by the present rector: the font cover, a lofty and beauti- average attendance, IB; Miss Harnet Berndge, mist ful work in carved oak, is 12 feet in height, as well as Carrier.-Thomas Camm, to Melton Mowbray, tues.; to the reredos and other carved work in the church, was I Grantham, sat Thorold Rev. Wilfrid Augustu8 Holden Dawson John Henry, foreman to Mr. Nottingham William (Mrs.), farmer M.A. Rectory Edwin Glassup Peel George, Blue Dog P.H • COMMERCI.\L. Ex ton J ames, gardener Sharp Southern, farmer Branston Fredk. parish clerk, Post off Mitchell Rhodes, farmer Ward Jn. frmr. & grazier, Lodge farm Branston Thomas S. grocer & confctnr :\1itchell Vincent, farmer (postal ad­ 'Vest on Bennett, farmer & grazier, Camm Thomas, farmer & carrier d re ss, cu:sterworth) Crossway house STAINFIELD is a parish, 4 miles north from Bardney Benedictine priory; at the Dissolu~ion there were r6 Junction station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of nuns, and revenues valued lilt £r12 ss. William Wyke­ the Great Northern railway and 10 east from Lincoln, in ham Tyrwhi!tt-Droke esq. of Shardeloes, Bucks, is lord the East Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, of the manor and sole 1andQwner. The soil is very good ; western division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Wragby subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and petty se~sional division, Lincoln union and county court oaJts. The area !os 2,098 acres of land and 4 of water; district, rural deanery of Wraggoe, archdeaconry of Stow ratea~ble value, £r, 153; the population in rgor was 156. and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is an Sacristan, James Norris. edifice of brick with stone dressings, consisting of nave and a bell turret, and contains some curious old ban­ Post Office. James Norris, sub-postmaster. Letters by ners: it was rebuilt in 17n, and the gallery was taken foot post through Wragby S.O. arrive at 8.25 a.m.; down and the church reseated in 1887: there are r2o dispa,tched at 4 p.m. No delivery on sunday. Postal sittings. The register dates from the year 1714. The OI"de11s are issued & paid here. The ne,ares<t money living is a vioarage, net yearly value £68, in the gift of order & telegraph office is at Bardney, 3 miles distant W. W. Tyrwhitt-Dmke e'sq. and held since 1905 by the Public Elementary 'School (mixed), for 76 children, with Rev. John Percy Morgan B.A. of Keble Oollege, Oxford. residence for mistress; average attendance, 49; Miss Henry Percy, in the reign of Henry II. foundw here a Harriet Redfern, mistress Cabourn William, Bleak house Hickson Edward, cowkeeper Redfern Harriett (Miss),schoolmistrss Morgan Rev. John Percy B.A. (vicar), Musgrave Weston, farmer & overseer. Shaw & Cabonrn, farmers, Stainfield Vicarage Grange farm haJ.l Cabourn George Eli, farmer (Shaw Norris James, cowkeeper, parish Shuttleworth Hy.farmer, Stainfield ho & Cabourn), Stainfield hall clerk, & post office Snells John, cow keeper Freeston Frederick, cowkeeper STAINTON-:BY-LANGWORTH is a small village William Henry Osborne, of Queen's College, Birmingham. and township forming a parish with the township of The Earl of Scarbrough is lord of the manor and sole Newball and the hamlet of Reasby, on the river Lang­ landowner. The soil is light and gravelly; subsoil, clay. worth, 2 miles north from Langworth station on the Hull 'f:he chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,452 and Lincoln branch of the Great Central (M. S. and acres; l'a.teable va1lue of Stainton, £r,36o; the population I~.) railway, :; west from Wragby and 7 north-east from in 1901 was, in the township of Stain:ton, 130, and in the Lincoln, in the East Lindsey division of the county, ecclesiastical parish (which includes the formerly extra­ pa.l'ts of Lindsey, west division of WrnggxJe w'<l.pentake. parochial pla.ce of Ooldste:ad), 223. Wrngby petty sessional division, union and county court NEWB.ALL is a. tcwn's,hip 1 mile !'>Outh-east. The area diffiriot of Lincoln, rura:l de-anery of Wraggoe, arch­ is 1,557 acres; rBiteable value, [r,223; population in dea.conrv• of Stow and diocese of Linooln. The church of 1901, 88 . St. John the Baptist is a small and plain building of !i'tone, consi,s:ting of chancel and nave and a. western tur­ Reoa.sby is a hamlet, r mile north. ret containing one bell : there is a murol tablet of si:one OOI.DSTEAD (or Coulstead), formerly extra-parochial, to the memory of Nichola's S:mdel'son, of Reasby Ha:ll, in is now a. parish; the area is 87 acres; rateable value, this parish, and his son, of the same name, dated 16x9 : [36; the population in 1901 was 5· there are 8o sittings. The register dates from the year Letters through Lincoln arrive at 7 a.m. Letter Box 1720. The living is a. vicaragP, net yearly value £roo, cleared at 6. w p.m. The nearest money order office inclurlin~ 18 acres of glebe, with residencP, in the gift of is at Scothern & telegraph office a.t Langworth station, the Earl of Scarbroug-h, and held since 1873 by the Rev. 2 miles distant .